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IN A DARK DARK HOUSE
September 9 - October 9
Note: No performance September 16 or 17
By Neil LaBute
Directed by Joe Natale
Starring Drew Kahn and
Richard Lambert
Featuring the original music of
Steve Borowski
Two brothers confront one another
among the shadows of the past in
this taut psychological thriller by
the acclaimed new voice of
off-Broadway and the cinema.
Note: 2009/2010 Memberships will be
honored through this production.
SWEET STREET
November 18 - December11
There will be no performance on Thanksgiving
By Keith Waterhouse
Adapted from his own novel
Directed by Robert Waterhouse
Starring Richard Lambert, Kelly Meg
Brennan, Jeff Coyle and Pamela
Rose-Mangus
A married man falls obsessively,
disastrously in love with an
effervescent younger woman in this
celebrated West End hit. Directed
for the New Phoenix by the
playwright’s son, OUR SONG is
a dramatic love letter resounding
with wit and wisdom.
VIVIEN
January 13 - February 12
By Rick Foster
Directed by Kelli Bocock-Natale
A co-production with Red Thread
Theatre
Starring Josephine Hogan
The celebrated actress Vivien
Leigh is at the end of her career
and unraveling in this sensitive
and highly theatrical one-woman
show about the demons that drive
genius. VIVIEN is by turns
shocking, funny, and moving.
INHERIT THE WIND
March 17 – April 9
By Jerome Lawrence and
Robert E. Lee
Directed by Kurt Schneiderman
A co-production with Subversive
Theatre
The acclaimed play inspired by the
infamous “Scopes Monkey Trial,”
in which a small town stages a
show-down between
Fundamentalism and science, is
given a fresh voice for our times
in a co-production with Subversive
Theatre Co.
FILLMORE
April 21 - May 14
Written and Directed by
Richard Lambert
Starring Wendy Hall as Frannie.
Featuring the music of
composer-in-residence
Steve Borowski
A new work that evokes both the
former grandeur and decline of
downtown Buffalo, FILLMORE
dramatizes the toll time takes on an
aging boarding house.
Dates to be announced
MRS. WARREN SMITH
A workshop of a new play based on
Virginia Woolf’s MRS. DALLOWAY, by Tina Bampton.
And coming for Curtain-Up! 2011:
IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY
The electric, Tony nominated hit by Sarah Ruhl.